NEWSWORTHY
SF/Fantasy podcasts have become more common every year. Here are the winners of the 2012 Parsec Awards, which celebrate the best of speculative fiction podcasting and were announced on September 1, 2012 at DragonCon in Atlanta:
Best Small Cast Speculative Fiction Story (Short Form):“The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: Precarious Child,” Pip Ballantine
Best Small Cast Speculative Fiction Story (Long Form):“Underwood and Flinch: A Vampire Novel,” Mike Bennett
Best Large Cast Speculative Fiction Story:“The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: The Seven,” P.C. Haring
More winners and nominees can be found at http://ow.ly/ej7rL.
As we near the end of the year, “best of” lists provide ideas for gifts or as spurs to catching up on the best speculative fiction of the past year. Here are the winners of the prestigious Hugo and Nebula awards since 2000:
Hugo Awards
2011 Blackout/All Clear, by Connie Willis
2010 The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi and The City and the City, by China Miéville
2009 The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
2008 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon
2007 Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge
2006 Spin, by Robert Charles Wilson
2005 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
2004 Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 Hominids, by Robert J. Sawyer
2002 American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
2001 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, by J.K. Rowling
2000 A Deepness in the Sky, by Vernor Vinge
Nebula Awards
2011 Among Others, by Jo Walton
2010 Blackout/All Clear, by Connie Willis
2009 The Windup Girl, by Paolo Bacigalupi
2008 Powers, by Ursula K. Le Guin
2007 The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chabon
2006 Seeker, by Jack McDevitt
2005 Camouflage, by Joe Haldeman
2004: Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold
2003 The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon
2002 American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
2001 The Quantum Rose, by Catherine Asaro
2000 Darwin’s Radio, by Greg Bear
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